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detect geode, fire eagle, or google gear installed on browser

is there any demo on how to detect geode ,fire eagle, google gear installed on user browsers and get user location?

Solution

  • I've written a brief page explaining different ways for a developer to obtain a user's location, including IP geolocation, the W3C Geolocation API and reverse geocoding.

    It's possible that you might want to detect Geode, Loki or Google Gears geolocation as well (although I think those are likely to be phased out once the W3C API is settled on). Ajaxian has built a shim that will abstract out queries to W3C, Gears and Google ClientLocation.

    Finally, Fire Eagle is just a location broker -- you can install a Firefox plugin for Fire Eagle, but that still won't provide websites with access to the user's Fire Eagle location. (That would be cool though, I hope they're working with Mozilla on that).